Is the plugin framework already part of 2.3.0? I can't find any
documentation for this new feature besides some early brainstorming
posts.
On Dec 22 2009, 7:28 pm, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote:
> The plugin framework is not meant for this. Plugins can only insert code at
> points that have explicitly been declared by the original generator. For
> example, in Java, the code generator generates one insertion point in each
> class. So, you can add new methods to a message type, but you cannot stick
> javadoc comments on the existing methods.
>
> I think that a system which let you arbitrarily edit the generated code
> would be too fragile -- any change to the code generator would potentially
> break plugins. In fact, I'm even worried that the current system is risky
> because it allows plugins to get access to private members which could
> change, but I don't see any way around that.
>
> All this said, I think it would be great if the protocol compiler supported
> some format for documentation comments and automatically copied those
> comments into the generated code. But no one has actually worked on this
> yet.
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Christopher Piggott
> <cpigg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hmm maybe I can use the "UninterpretedOption" message to do this.
> > Would something like this work?
>
> > message ChrisMessage {
> > option javadoc = "This is an object representing Chris's Message";
> > repeated int32 field1 = 1 [javadoc="This is a javadoc for field 1];
> > repeated int32 field2 = 2 [javadoc="This is a javadoc for field 2];
> > }
>
> > Then write a plug-in that finds those and writes the ones whose
> > NamePart.equals("javadoc") in as a /** comment */
>
> > Possible?
>
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